Formerly Diplomatic Editor and Deputy Foreign Editor, The Economist
Dr Edwina Moreton OBE was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Studies, MIT, collaborating on projects and publications at both MIT and Harvard on European security and east-west relations. On her return to the UK she taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, before joining The Economist, where she worked for 30 years. As the paper’s Diplomatic Editor, she wrote on a wide range of security issues, from arms control, non-proliferation, trans-Atlantic relations and Asian security, to the UN, international justice and human rights.
Boards and councils served on have included the UK Know-How Fund, Chatham House, the IISS, Wilton Park, VERTIC, an NGO involved in treaty verification, and the McDonald Centre, Oxford. She also served on the European Advisory Group of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University . She was made OBE by Queen Elizabeth and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Birmingham. She served as Master of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, City of London, 2018-19.
A member of the Programme Committee, The Ditchley Foundation.